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Computational World Cup
The Financial Times’s Alphaville blog recently covered a number of quantitative models for predicting World Cup outcomes – models developed by well-known “quant” desks. Though this may seem like a waste of brains and shareholder value, World Cup outcomes are … Continue reading
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
Albert-László Barabási, in his usual creative fashion, has produced an interesting game to help publicize his new book, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do. Read their description of the game below and check it out if you’re interested! … Continue reading
Tax Day: A Mathematical Approach to the Study of the United States Code
United States Code April 15th is Tax Day! Unless you’ve filed for an extension or you’re a corporation on your own fiscal year, you’ve hopefully finished your taxes by now! While you were filing your return, you may have noticed … Continue reading
H.R. 4872 Word Cloud
With the passage of H.R. 4872 in the House last night, our previous research on the relative size of H.R. 3962 has been in high demand. While we are not yet prepared to run similar calculations for H.R. 4872, at … Continue reading
New Paper Available on SSRN: A Profitable Trading and Risk Management Strategy Despite Transaction Cost
Readers might be interested in an article that A. Duran and I have coming out in Quantitative Finance this year entitled A Profitable Trading and Risk Management Strategy Despite Transaction Cost. In the article, we develop a strategy which outperforms … Continue reading
On the Stability of Community Detection Algorithms on Longitudinal Citation Data: Paper & New Code
Last summer, Dan, Jon and I wrote our conference paper for ASNA 2009 entitled On the Stability of Community Detection Algorithms on Longitudinal Citation Data. The purpose of this paper was to experimentally explore a number of properties of community … Continue reading
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Slides from our Presentation at UPenn Computational Linguistics (CLUNCH) / Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)
We have spent the past couple days at the University of Pennsylvania where we presented information about our efforts to compile a complete United States Supreme Court Corpus. As noted in the slides below, we are interested in creating a corpus … Continue reading
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GraphMovie: A Library for Generating Movies from Dynamic Graphs with igraph
Over the past few months, we’ve developed a library for simply generating dynamic network animations. We’ve used this library in visualizations like (1) Visualizing the Gawaher Interactions of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day Bomber and (2) Dynamic Animation of … Continue reading
Gawaher Forum Content from Farouk1986, the Christmas Day Bomber
Drew Conway over at Zero Intelligence Agents brought to our attention the Farouk1986 data set provided by Evan Kohlman from the NEFA Foundation. For those not familiar, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is charged with willful attempt to destroy an aircraft in connection … Continue reading
Visualizing the East Anglia Climate Research Unit Leaked Email Network
As reported in a wide variety of news outlets, last week, a large amount of data was hacked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. This data included both source code for the CRU climate models, as … Continue reading
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New Paper: Properties of the United States Code Citation Network
We have been working on a larger paper applying many concepts from structural analysis and complexity science to the study of bodies of statutory law such as the United States Code. To preview the broader paper, we’ve published to SSRN … Continue reading
Visualizing the Structure of H.R. 3962 — The Health Care Bill
In addition to the facts we have presented on HR 3962, we wanted to offer a visualization for the structure of the Bill. Like many other bills, HR 3962, is divided into Divisions, Titles, Subtitles, Parts, Subparts, Sections, Subsections, Clauses, … Continue reading
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Facts About the Length of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (AHCAA)
In light of last night’s vote on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, we decided to calculate a few numbers on the current bill. Based on the Library of Congress’s XML representation of the bill (which can … Continue reading
